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Investigating Windows systems with Linux

WINDOW KIT

Author(s): HANS-PETER MERKEL AND MARKUS FEILNER

A forensics expert explains how to extract interesting details from a confiscated Windows hard disk using standard Linux tools.

Criminals, intruders, and corporate saboteurs leave data behind on the hard disks of any computers they visit. Many of these computers are Windows systems, but you don’t need Windows to extract valuable forensic information from a Windows hard disk. In this article, I will describe some simple techniques for getting forensic data from a Windows disk using Linux.


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